Consolidated Kansas

[friendshipstar]

Good morning, everyone.
I am in OKC this morning at the 2014 BBR World Finals. My DIL rode the current world champion barrel horse two years ago. Pretty exciting stuff. She qualified for the short go on three of her four horses for today. It would be super exciting to win again. But for now we will just feel blessed to be here. Don't want to put all our eggs in one basket.

How is the weather at home?

 

[Trish44]

I make my hoop coops 8 ft wide because I'm tall & need the height to be able to stand up in there without bending over. As Danz said if you don't have that issue you can make it a little wider & not so tall. They're very versatile so you can adjust for how many panels you want to use & figure out how long your sides need to be accordingly. I happen to like mine to be 16 ft long, so that's how long of a board I use. That way I can make them either single or a double coop. I don't make houses in mine, that's too complicated for my building skills, but chickens are tough. I winterize mine with plastic on the sides & leave them open in the warmer weather. I use a heavy duty tarp on the top of it for shelter & more shade. My coops are under trees anyway, but it gives them shelter from rain & such.

We actually got some rain last night, I don't know how much for sure, but it's pretty wet out there. The goats had to stay out in it last night but I did leave one of the toppers open so they could get under it if they wanted to. I didn't see them laying out in the yard so they must have gone in there.

 

[SternRose]

Raining hard. Hope you do good. And. Morning all!

 

[okjenyp]

Yay I got my silkies today!! And the lady was nice and threw in a few bantams. One happy chicken mamma here!!

 

[okjenyp]

I did a head count today, as I always do.. And am missing a little one in the coop. I have it sectioned off for integration. They haven't even went out to the run yet. One is missing. I don't see any feathers or blood or an opening in their area. I'm baffled! I searched all over the yard and coop and can't find her. So now that she is missing, and my 6 new fluffies, the count is 25.

 

[lizzyGSR]

Oh boy, what a day! I'm way behind on reading and will have to catch up later. For now, just an quick update... I just got home after ATTEMPTING to leave from my sister's place at 7:30 this morning, and it is only a 3 hour drive. I had everything loaded. All I had to do was put Ethan in the car and drive away. Except that I couldn't drive away because I discovered that my keys were missing. I went looking for them high and low at my sister's place, in my sister's car, at my parents' place, and everywhere I could think of that I'd been. No luck. The only thing I can think of is that I lost them at a garage sale I went to, and I have no way of contacting the people who put the garage sale on (and I can't just go back to their place without driving about 4 hours). My husband ended up having to drive 3 hours to bring me his set of car keys on his day off after a really busy day for him yesterday. Then, on the way back home, we got caught in a dust storm (winds gusting to 65 miles per hour, and it has been REALLY dry out here. All that together resulted in ZERO visibility - worse than any blizzard I've ever been in!) I couldn't even see the front end of my car from the driver's seat, and the car was being pelted with things I couldn't see (rocks, tumbleweeds, etc). I nearly ran into a semi that appeared out of nowhere (thankfully not moving very fast). I had just pulled off of I-70 just before the dust storm hit, and I am so glad I did! It would have been nerve wrecking running into that on the highway with lots of other people! So, a trip that should've only taken 3 hours has taken about 14 hours. I am exhausted and so glad to finally be home. I am still not sure how I managed to lose my keys, and they seem to be the only thing missing. Apparently, my scatter brained-ness has really gotten the best of me this time! Or, maybe that's the 'mommy brain' tightening it's grip on me....

 

[SternRose]

Lol. Sounds rough. I'm trying to figure out if I should ask this guy in my grade out. My b-days Friday, and it also happens to be a school dance, and I don't want to go alone. I realy like this guy and in 6 grade he had a group(7) guy ask me out I said no, but know I realy realy like him. But I don't now if he likes me. Urge, what to do????!!!!

 

[SternRose]

Any suggestions????

 

[SternRose]

I'm in middle school and he's friends asked me 2 grades ago

 

[chicken danz]

SternRose, I could have never asked a guy out because I was always so afraid of rejection. But if I were doing it all over now I sure would. I say follow your heart. And if he says no, then you are only back to where you began. You haven't lost anything at all.
Lizzy I was thinking about you last night. I saw on the weather they were predicting snow out that direction. We just get a general Kansas wide high lights for weather so we don't really see much for your area. I have had days just like that. My DH lost the keys to our truck when we were in Branson, MO. I actually think he laid them on top of our friends truck while he hooked up the boat. We had already left our condo and we were 7 hours from home on a weekend. Nothing was open to get keys. Luckily I have a phobia about getting locked out of a vehicle and found I had a spare to the truck hidden in my bag. I didn't even realize I had it there. I hate smart keys though. I only have one key to my car and a replacement is $350. I finally bought a key with no buttons on it to keep at home for emergencies and it alone was over $200. If you try to use a key that isn't programed to the car it shuts down the computer so it won't run at all.
We have cold weather moving in this week and it's insane. Down in the 30s at night and highs in the 50's. This is May...or will be in two days. I don't ever remember weather like this. Are we heading back into the ice age again??